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"Against Interpretation"
Against Interpretation is an essay by Susan Sontag that criticizes the prevailing emphasis on interpreting and analyzing works of art, arguing for a focus on experiencing and appreciating art for its own sake.
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It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. An ugly or grotesque subject may be moving because it has been dignified by the attention of the photographer. A beautiful subject can
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openlab.citytech.cuny.eduAgainst Interpretation - Susan Sontag
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Against Interpretation
On style
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The artist a exemplary sufferer
Simone Weil
Camus’ Notebooks
Michel Leiris’ Manhood
The anthropologist as hero
The literary criticism of Georg Lukacs
Sartre’s Saint Genet
Nathalie Sarraute and the novel
III
Ionesco
Reflections on The Deputy
The death of tragedy
Going to theater, etc.
Marat/Sa
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